Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] come [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had come up real short on the gratuitous sex and violence so far . |
| 2 | I had come back blind . |
| 3 | ‘ Do you want to come back another day , when the light 's better ? ’ |
| 4 | Right , do you want to come in next week ? |
| 5 | I 'd put them all in an old suitcase and erm , cos I could n't just put them in there I had to have a look , they 're sentimental and that book was in there so I can definitely get you that , but I would n't go up in the loft I 'm afraid , I 'm so scared of creepy crawlies so er , you know , if you , if you want to come back some time when my husband 's here I mean he can tell you more about the wallpaper and decorating , and I 'll get him to get that out . |
| 6 | Finally she returned to her dorm , terrified not so much at the prospect of getting caught but because she had come back empty handed . |
| 7 | Lessing consulted Dinah , who had come back tired from an evening full of accidents ; the scenery had fallen , the lesser lady had not come in on cue , the leading man had been a failure and she would have to find someone else . |
| 8 | But you wanted to come up this way . |
| 9 | So she started to cry and all then and said she said she was sorry , and right enough she stuck to the time that we allow her to , she 's come in last night dead on the button . |
| 10 | We 're so close to getting the job done , but we keep coming up short . |
| 11 | They 've come out nice have n't they ? |
| 12 | and you know and then they said the same thing to her they said come back next weekend and we 'll sort it out . |
| 13 | It has to be said that when Dustin has co-starred in a movie with as big a star as he — McQueen , Redford , Beatty or Connery — he has come off second best . |
| 14 | I heard him working away up here alone , and he kept coming down all eager and excited and asking me to come and look , and I would n't … of all the ridiculous , petty … |
| 15 | Much impressed with my narrow escape , Dad carried the object downstairs on top of the sand in the fire bucket — it did come in handy after all — and we sat around gazing at it , drinking the inevitable tea and storing up this tale to pass on to all our friends and relations . |
| 16 | She had only meant to defend herself , but it had come out all wrong . |
| 17 | It was the worst thing she had ever said to him , but it had come out unpremeditated and could not be unsaid . |
| 18 | It was a year since he had come up this steep , winding avenue . |
| 19 | He had come out first of everyone in his early examinations , and worked constantly . |
| 20 | He had come in barefoot . |
| 21 | Well I 'm I went back in and it 's come out gleaming . |
| 22 | So you can play back and listen , make sure it 's come out alright . |
| 23 | , yeah it 's come in handy to put those things right at the beginning , that 's the first thing you look at , you do it on purpose . |
| 24 | And this man used to go up , do you know I 've heard my father say he 's come up three or four times a week and help him and when they slaughtered the things they used to have the slaughterhouse down the piste years ago , as I 'm talking about sixty , sixty , seventy years ago , sixty years ago , where they used to slaughter the stuff , you see , down the piste and this was the Christmas show this was , all these hindquarters of beef . |
| 25 | Like a mother scolding her lost child , I thought , after he 's come back safe : just like Perkin with Mackie . |
| 26 | And perhaps er what has come out that perhaps is not reflected either in my initial statement or in the summary is this point about maximizing the benefits of the relief roads er through complementary measures within the urban area . |